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Weekly Update: Sept. 21- 25

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  Another week of learning together! We continued our work with pre-printing lines, recognizing and printing our names correctly. It will be something we will continue to practice each day.  Monday: Our learning task today was practicing curvy lines with our air pencils, whiteboards and then our printing books. It was important to remember the formation of these lines and where to start and end.    Read aloud of the day: Tuesday: We learned about 2D shapes and how we can see shapes all around us. We practiced our cutting skills to cut our shapes and use our "driving hand" to help move the paper around to make cutting the shapes easier. We practiced drawing the shapes in our visual journals.  Read aloud of the day: Wednesday: In math, we continued our patterning work. We watched a video about patterning and how we can use many different things to create a pattern. In our visual journals, we created a pattern fish using an ABC pattern. Ask me how many things are i...

Weekly Update: Sept.14 - 17

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As always, this was a busy week with a new seating plan to help reinforce name recognition. We started some new morning bins to work on practicing our fine motor skills and printing practice of our names with proper capitalization followed by lowercase.      Monday: Our focus today was about kindness and responsibilities. We discussed how we take care of ourselves, others and space - specifically at school. Many of them were able to recognize the many ways they are able to do this everyday.  Read aloud of the day: Tuesday: Learning task of the day was slanted lines. The proper formation is top down and it will help with printing letters like A, V and W. Read aloud of the day: Wednesday: In Math today, we continued our work in patterns. We were able to make connections of how patterns are related to our world and all around us. They created simple AB patterns using classroom materials.    Read aloud of the day: Thursday: Each day this week, we spent a couple...